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For a Kentucky rifleman who spent his tour trudging through Vietnam's Central Highlands, it was Nancy Sinatra's ""These Boots Are Made for Walkin'."" For a ""tunnel rat"" who blew smoke into the Viet Cong's underground tunnels, it was Jimi Hendrix's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780399174964Author Peter BebergalFormat PaperbackPage Count 254Imprint Tarcher/Putnam,USPublisher Tarcher/Putnam,USWeight(grams) 1g

The question of control for Black women is a costly one. From 1986 onwards, the trajectory of Janet Jackson's career can be summed up in her desire for control. Control for Janet was never simply just about her desire for economic and creative control...

'Get the inside scoop on all things Spice!' OK! Magazine 'A compelling new book' Daily Express From the moment they burst...

Released in 1970, Workingman's Dead was the breakthrough album for the Grateful Dead, a cold-water-shock departure from the Acid Test madness of the late '60s. It was the band's most commercially and critically successful release to date. More...

Welcome to the sunshine island - where the beaches are golden, the lifestyle is perfect and anything is possible.Popstar Matteo Stanford is eager to escape to the sunshine island to catch up with his old friend Alex and secretly film his latest music...

This is an outstanding collection of text scores from key composers and artists, as well as original essays and interviews offering guidance and lucid analysis. "Word Events" focuses on an approach to notation that uses the written word, as...

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324 pages of never before seen Roxy Music photographs from one of the most high-profile Roxy Music fans celebrating the 50th anniversary of the band's debut album. A perfect gift for fans of 80s bands, Roxy Music and music photography. 2022 marks the...

Broadway's top orchestrators - Robert Russell Bennett, Don Walker, Philip J. Lang, Jonathan Tunick - are names well known to musical theatre fans, but few people understand precisely what the orchestrator does. The Sound of Broadway Music is the first...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781903360163Author John PringFormat PaperbackImprint Orphans PublishingPublisher Orphans Publishing

By 1978, the landscape of pop music had changed considerably since Jethro Tull's earlier hit albums Aqualung (1971) and Thick As A Brick (1972). Punk, disco and new wave were in and progressive rock's heyday was over. Despite all of this, during the year...

'[An] astute reckoning with modern celebrity' - The Times'A wild read' - The Guardian'A well-researched, measured account' - The SunPart biography, part social history, Being Britney pieces together a collage of stories, interviews, legends and fan...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780897244824Author Green DayPage Count 64Imprint Warner Bros. Publications Inc.,U.S.Publisher Warner Bros. Publications Inc.,U.S.

Lavishly illustrated, respected journalist Harvey Kubernik charts Leonard Cohen's extraordinary career in detail, placing his literary and musical achievements within the context of his life. From his beginnings as a writer and poet, through his classic...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780951988862Author Ian WallisFormat PaperbackPage Count 422Imprint Music Mentor BooksPublisher Music Mentor BooksWeight(grams) 678g

Her iconic blonde looks, stunning voice and songs of loneliness and melancholy have endeared her to millions, yet Agnetha Faltskog remains an enigmatic and distant figure. From her success as a teenage singer and songwriter in Sweden in the late 1960 s...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781629339122Author Sergio FariasFormat PaperbackPage Count 354Imprint BearManor MediaPublisher BearManor MediaWeight(grams) 472gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm...

Mad World is a highly entertaining oral history that celebrates the New Wave music phenomenon of the 1980s via new interviews with 35 of the most notable artists of the period. Each chapter begins with a discussion of their most popular song but leads to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780955731310Author Martin NewellFormat PaperbackPage Count 260Imprint Wiven BooksPublisher Wiven Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781734855517Author Gary FearonFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint RobinsongPublisher RobinsongWeight(grams) 327gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 13mm

When Peter Gabriel left rock royalty Genesis in 1975 for personal reasons, his musical future was full of uncertainty. But within 18 months he returned in style with his debut solo album and a hit single 'Solsbury Hill'. It set him on a path that has...

Quite simply, Martin Popoff's Sabotage! Black Sabbath in the Seventies marks the most intensive analysis of Black Sabbath's first eight albums ever attempted. This is a big book-129,000 words long, every song analysed in detail, loads of first-hand...

Ornette Coleman, Psychoanalysis, Discourse develops tools from psychoanalysis for the analysis of Ornette Coleman's discourse.In this psychoanalytic, philosophical and musical meditation on what it means to follow, A. L. James presents an approach to the...

When singer Amy Winehouse was found dead at her London home in 2011, the press inducted her into what Kurt Cobain's mother named the 27 Club. "Now he's gone and joined that stupid club," she said in 1994, after being told that her son, the front man of...

Shortlisted for the Penderyn Music Book Prize 2017. In this first installment of acclaimed music writer David Toop's interdisciplinary and sweeping overview of free improvisation, Into the Maelstrom: Music, Improvisation and the Dream of Freedom:...

Warren Zevon songs are like chapters in a great American novel. Its story lies in the heart of his and our psyche. The lines are blurred. We never seem to know if we are looking in a mirror or peering through a window; we only know that when we listen we...

On the back of his published diary Brian Eno describes himself variously as: a mammal, a father, an artist, a celebrity, a pragmatist, a computer-user, an interviewee, and a 'drifting clarifier'. To this list we might add rock star (on the first two Roxy...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061931369Author Roxana ShiraziFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint IgniterPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 476gDimensions(mm) 150mm *...

What made Bowie special? What made him the cultural icon he is today? And what made millions of people around the world tune into his peculiar wavelength and find exactly what they'd been looking for all along? These are the questions asked by Simon...

A Matter Of Fact is the perfect companion to Deep Purple's music. Full of bizarre, obscure and amazing facts that have surrounded the band throughout its career of over forty years. If you have ever had disagreements with fellow fans about various...

Brought up in Las Vegas on a diet of rock and synth bands such as The Cure, Oasis, mid-70s David Bowie, Morrissey and classic Depeche Mode among others, The Killers are in fact a very British band. Their rise to fame has been meteoric, inspired and...

Newsday has said that Nick Tosches "casts brilliant black light." The San Diego Reader has said that "Tosches's best sentences uncoil like rattlesnakes and strike with a venom that spreads poison through all the little Sunday-school ideas you've held...

From 1958 to 1963, Neil Sedaka sold 25 million records - more than anyone except Elvis Presley. He thought he could do no wrong, but a year later he was all but off the charts, swept away by The Beatles and the British Invasion - a blow he never saw...

For most of the US, disco died in 1979. Triggered by the infamous "Disco Demolition" night at Comiskey Park in Chicago on July 12, 1979, a backlash made the word "disco" an overnight punchline. Major labels dropped disco artists and producers, and those...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781617755934Author Dennis BurmeisterFormat HardbackPage Count 420Imprint Akashic Books,U.S.Publisher Akashic Books,U.S.

Megadeth's run of thrash classics from the mid eighties through to the nineties continue to be celebrated in the metal community long after leader Dave Mustaine's band mates have been discarded to the sands of time-save one, Dave "Jr" Ellefson...

This is the first book to explore the most iconic covers ever, from Elvis's 'Hound Dog' and the Rolling Stones' 'Not Fade Away' to Led Zeppelin's 'Dazed and Confused', The Talking Heads' 'Take Me to the River' and Adele's 'Make You Feel My Love'. Written...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374533427Author Jace ClaytonFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncPublisher Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncWeight(grams)...

With riots, prison sentences and equipment stolen, 1980 and the earlier part of 1981 was an incredibly turbulent time for The Stranglers. Their misfortune provided the press with excellent stories but rarely was their music written about. Understandably,...